Rufus Gifford, the Obama campaign’s chief fund-raiser, could give Biden entrée to deep-pocketed donors in Hollywood [...] thrilled by his plug for same-sex marriage [...] during his punishing tour of Holiday Inn ballrooms over the past four years. All of which makes it unsurprising that Biden considers himself, if not the 800-pound gorilla of the 2016 field, then certainly a big-boned primate. At this point, you realize the problem isn’t that Biden can’t mount a credible campaign. [...] the image of him manning the Oval Office controls. [...] it’s not hard to imagine Chicago pining for a more on-message veep.

Matthews channels Tecs: ...Matthews said. "[Romney] says things like, 'Oh, I just left the aircraft.' What are you, a Conehead? What planet are you from? Nobody talks like that. We earthlings have a certain language. [We say] 'I just got off the plane.'"Kind of like when Tecs says that he just finished Coanding some ribs in the back yard and will Coanda off to his next billion-dollar CD conference in St. Tropez with Pepe.

Glad you liked it, Tecs. I am also happy that it stopped the anti-Italian tirades from your corner. I don't like them much either, but must admit that their way of making artichokes beats all other cooking methods of all other plant matter, bar none.Also, Claudio Monteverdi was a serious badass.